CHAPTER 10
John looked at the entrance and went inside. He sighed and gave the second gift which was made of copper. He looked at them and decided to gather more people. He had to find some subordinates and it would be better to have well trained ones rather than to train them.
John walked over to the people and kept talking about different talks. He had learnt about most of the items as he was strong enough. He had indirectly mentioned that he had built a big mansion and was looking for some maids to take care of the mansion and some butlers to take care of his business. They would indeed have nieces and nephews or have some distant relatives. The weak ones may even send their children as they do not have much choice rather than to just do it.
John looked at the women who had approached him. He was eating the stag meat that was not so bad. He had not even seen a stag and neither its meat in the previous life. He looked at her and smiled, "Hello lady."
The lady bowed with a standard etiquette and said, "Nice to meet you viscount John the first."
John looked at her in doubt. He did not expect his uncle or said uncle to spread the news. The lady said, "I am the daughter of Count Drac name Rosaline. It is nice to meet you." Here is the letter of appointment of the viscount and the badge of viscount. They were indeed too casual to send a woman for it. John took it and smiled and went back to eat. He was not going to smile and please her. If they sent her to take the blame then she better be ready to face his wrath.
Rosaline was angry and went away as she was the one pleased and she did not know how to do otherwise. John walked and kept eating more food. He looked at the food and sighed. He could not control temperature but as his control was at the limit of temperature, he could control the kinetic energy among the molecules and control temperature to a certain limit. He also found that he will be able to manipulate items as long as he has seen it once and does not need to see it always. His power should be expandable through devices like camera.
John sighed as he was the new lord. He did not have any idea of giving it away to someone else. He could keep a regent so that he could enjoy the life. He really wanted to do such things but found that life is beautiful when we get the things we want to have when the world works against him. He also decided to become a noble and train himself to have some prestige and have the look of the king as was shown in the movies. He also wanted to make the soldiers fear with his look and the strong generals run away when he just stands there.
John took the badge and pinned it on his dress. That had meant that he had taken the position of the Viscount and an independent one at that. The lords and knights bowed down and waited for him to give a speech. John said, "I will invite you to a party another day. Let us not forget todays heroes who are celebrating the marriage."
They clapped and he knew that they would clap no matter whatever bullshit he said. He sighed and continued drinking wine. He did not have to keep anything hidden and just used his power to get things in the air and keep eating. Why should he use his hands when he was a mage? Mages are special and strong and they are mystical. They will use spells to clean themselves and use spells to push away their admirers. Only a mage who uses spell in real life will they be a real mage.
John ate the food and left the room. He walked outside. He was followed by the woman and she asked, "What are your plans? You will have to arrange a party and even marquises will arrive and a royal agent will come too. There may even be some emissaries from other kingdoms. Can you who does not know anything about luxury or have such subordinates do it?"
John looked at her. He hated such bitches. She was right and she was not wrong to approach him. But he hated such self-righteous people who would appear all knowing. Now that he thinks about it, he can also be a person with such knowledge as he can have more memory. He should have learnt more instead of living in despair. He sighed and said, "I am a wizard. I will make a new castle and decorate it in no manner seen before. I can get a lot of food materials heard but hard to get. The problem of cooks can be solved by some favors and the maids and butlers can be arranged by me. It is hard but not for me. Anything that can be calculated and completed is not hard as the only thing that needs to be done is to do it. Anything other than that is an impossible task and throw it away and escape or just go through it and die honorably as you are sacrificed as a cannon fodder. Fuck society. I am leaving."
Rosaline hated such brutes. He appeared noble and talked logically but the manner and his words were nothing more than that of a brute. The swear-words were not something she could accept but he was one of the few who could be her support. If she gets to marry him, her name will undergo in history and her children will be powerful. His political stance will help her support her brother and her status will be more than the Count as the mage's wife and the one who supported the Count. She will have to let him know him and let him fall in love with her. She will be his first woman and she will become the main wife with the status as the lady of the family. She will help him when he is alone as his father is far away in mission and she will let him fall in love with her. She said, "I can help you."
John looked at her. The Count sent a woman who is his daughter for an important event. Only the rational ones understand the problem with the representative giving the letter and badge as the hot-blooded ones will be too happy and have a good impression on the person. What does she want? He has no interest in such relations where he is manipulated. He said, "I will do my own things."
John walked away but the women did not give up. She ran forward and caught his hand and kept rubbing it. She came too close to him and asked, "I am bored at home and this is the chance to stay outside and have some fun. Please help me." Her eyes had some tears and the perfume smelled good. John was in a daze at the beauty who came to his side. The people of this world practiced exercises and their bodies were perfect to some extent. The generations of selections by the nobles where the men are strong and the women are pretty has led to a special way that the nobles and rich are usually pretty good looking, much talented in body and in mind. They were pretty and although John had the soul in his previous life, he was not an intellectual person by choice. He made a lot of money as he was selected by the god but he did not want to take the risk in the modern concrete jungle where the strong remain the ones with connections and organizations under them. He was nothing more than a dud and the society did not have a method for him to rise. He had met some women from far away as they were pretty but he was not interested in them as he was strong enough to keep them as they could be stolen away by the stronger ones and no women could be believed. His ideas although defensive made him appear like a coward and no women had approached him after the initial times when he was introduced to the mature society.
John woke up from the daze and took his hand back and stepped back. This woman was a real problem but he had to decide. He had control over his emotions as otherwise he would have collapsed. Should he fall in love or possess her without love (by marrying her in legal manner, this is the medieval society where women are less valued than men. The possibility of equality needs equality in strength and women hardly can rise to that position in the medieval society when men can rise easily due to the physical strength (military manner and heavy load jobs) and better environment (supported by the society including woman.)) John decided to stay away as there were gods. He cannot guarantee the future of his children and he cannot guarantee that these women will remain loyal to him. He cannot guarantee that they will be reborn in another world to form a harem of their own and he cannot guarantee that they will be a woman in their previous life or the next life. Life is impermanent. He did not know about the gods but one thing was certain was that gods were too generous to their chosen ones and will give more powers and support. But he cannot believe anyone. He lived a whole life all alone when he could sleep with those women and just enjoy his life when he though that life was nothing more than 80 years or less. He lived a hard life due to his permanent memory when he could just live the life of a sage with knowledge. He was paranoid but he was a human more than anything. John got angry and remembered the classic lines to let the women stay away. He had to live his life in a calm and childish manner as he would die otherwise due to psychological collapse. Yes. He will fulfill all other fantasies that did not matter to him. He could live more majestically, he could become a king, he could see more people and understand the world, he could see movies day and night and read more books day and night, he could learn more magic and spells and start experiments. There are items many more methods to live happily and enjoy life than to be with a woman or have a family or friends.
John smiled and looked at her and said, "I have no interest in you women. Begone from here."
John sighed and walked away. He still was not courageous enough to say the dialogue of the great sword god. He decided to go home and practice the lines and some moves so that he could show off in front of his people. He sighed as he lost a chance.
Rosaline smiled and said, "If you like men I can arrange it. As a lord you will need to have some heirs and you just have to sleep with me two or three times for pregnancy. You can have as much men you want and I will even allow it. Not all lady wives will understand you."
John had a morbid face and he was really angry. His though process was stopped due to nausea. He was not against those kinds of people but he who has stood away from women and other beings hated the smell of men and staying with them. He was a straight man and if he could fuck men, he could fuck women. The problem was a logical one that was born in the modern world due to the religious ideas. If he was in a savage society he would not have cared for the women and fucked them whenever possible. If he was born in the first life as a noble, he would have lost his virginity to a maid or prostitute depending on his stature. Only in the modern world where there are families and religious ideas are to spread would a child like him think that marriage and love was inviolable. He was too innocent and hated it. No, he was not innocent. He just couldn't accept the further possibilities and accept the truth that he just could have a random relationship with random women as long as they liked it. He was a broken man bound by his ideas and fallacies but he did not want a woman to remind him that. He just wanted to live peacefully. She destroyed his idea to enjoy and conquer this world. She is evil.
John did not want some men coming behind him and could only explain in a serious manner, "I have no interest in men sexually or romantically and I like women in both manners and I like pretty and cue women. I have no interest in being in a relationship for now."
Rosaline understood that she was really messed up as she had made a negative impression on this god-man. She could only let some tears fall and try another strategy. She cannot give up such potential man. Who else could she marry? No higher lord would like her and she was not strong enough to even marry a heir to the viscount as they had their own alliances. She could only use the favor of her father so that she can find a better home. She said in a sad manner, "I just like you. I have always liked you since I was a child and always wanted to be your bride. I stayed away from other lords just for that. I hope you will accept me."
She was lying. John knew that the person whose existence he will replace will have no friends, no love interest, no contracts of any kind including being loved or marriage contract and no love from the family and will be purely a rational relation. She really lied. She was either a slut but he knew that he was not that handsome to have such a woman to come behind him or she was a gold digger but she behind his position. He really hates women like that. He sighed as he was tired with this world. Even if she really loved, that was another person and he has no interest in taking other persons love interest or women. Now he understood why the gods chose men in such a manner to be replaced as there would not be much complications. He decided to walk away but decided to punch her as he wanted to have a bad reputation so that he could keep as much women away from him as possible.
He got serious and looked at her and said, "If she breathes, she can choose for her own. If she chooses to be against me, she is my enemy. Enemies due to resources are temporary but the ones who stand against my ideas and philosophies are heretics to me. You who are the heretic have declared war on me by provocation. Begone, before I get angry."
John went forward to punch her but stopped and caught her shoulders to scare her and walked away. He wanted to punch her. Humans were both good and evil. He had seen wonderful women and men who had helped him and he had no prejudice against them. His prejudice comes into being when they touch his ideals regarding what he considers the most important. Those include his ideals about society, about life, about his interests and his ideas about love and marriage. Any women who dare to fall in love with him or dare to approach him to fall in a relationship should be ready to become his life and death enemy. He is prejudiced against them and will kill them. All other women are just other humans.